| IBP | SEO Elite | Web CEO | WebPosition | ||
| 1 | What is the pricing point? | Standard - $249.95, Business - $449.95 | $167 | SmallBiz - $189, SmallBiz Unleashed - $339 , Professional - $389, Professional Unleashed - $479 | Standard - $149, Professional - $389 |
| 3 | Is free or trial version available? | Yes, very limited demo version (it doesn’t submit pages, only a few web page aspects are analyzed in Top 10 Optimizer, you can not save changes done with Optimization Editor, etc) | Now 7 days of free trial are available | Yes, Free edition with no time limits and 15 days for free to analyze visitors with HitLens (web analytics service) | Yes, free 30 day trial |
| 5 | What are the specifications for the internet connection? | Mentioned nowhere… | There is a great thing: if you use a proxy, you will not be able to connect to the license center to verify your license. To change this you should go to settings, but to get to them you have to start up the program that is impossible while you don’t verify the license. Vicious circle… | 28.8K as minimum | Mentioned nowhere… |
| 7 | How will support be provided? | Support by e-mail | On-line PerlDesk and a knowledge base with just one question\answer | Free lifetime support by e-mail by a dedicated Support Angel, Support Center within the program | Support by e-mail |
| 9 | Are there tools helping at every stage of SEO process? | To track and analyze visitors you should buy AxROI | No, it can be used just for marketing of the existing properly SEOed web site, only for backlinks finding and ranking check | Yes, from the keyword research up to visitors analysis (including website up-time monitoring, FTP uploading, website audit) | Not exactly, there is a strange set of tasks you can do: keyword research, reports on ranking, meta tags changing, search engine submission, broken links finding. |
| 11 | How does optimization tool work? | Top 10 Web Page optimizer compares your pages to the pages of your competitors and suggests to do like they | No optimization tool | All pieces of advise are based on the researches and investigations of WebCEO analyst team, they monitor the major search engine rankings of several sample sites daily. Both on-page and of-page factors are analyzed | Page Critic tool compare your Web page to any specified HTML page found on the Web. And then returns optimal and average keyword statistics for the selected pages. Only on-page factors are analyzed. |
| 13 | What are the benefits of submission tool? | There is automatical and semi-automatical submission. Nice thing is that there is “Special Interest Site Submission”, not much categories but I hope they will have more | Only article submission tool that is still in beta | It is safe to use even Auto Submission tool, because Web CEO emulates browser and human behavior, but for more safety the search engines that are especially averse to automated submissions and want human verification are in the manual submission section | Very limited list of search engines and directories |
| 15 | Can you manage your PPC campaigns with this software? | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| 17 | Is there any tool to check backlinks? | Yes, backlinks can be checked with the help of Arelis, where you can choose what search engines to use to know your backlinks | Yes, you can check what backlinks are shown by Yahoo, Google, Live (MSN), AllTheWeb and AltaVista. But if you choose the option to skip some domains all the same they will be present in the report | Yes, you can check backlinks with the help of Links tool, that will tell you what is your site’s link popularity, what pages link to yours, what types of links are used and overview pages that link to yours. Also you can compare your link popularity to your competitors’ | No |
| 19 | Which reports does its web analytic tool provide? | There are 3 groups of reports : Fixed price ads, Search engines, Show conversions. These reports can provide you with basic information, mainly about your ads performance | - | There are 10 groups of reports: Traffic, Activity, Navigation, Visitors, Referrers, Pages, Systems, Demographics, eCommerce, Campaigns. Each group contains useful reports helping to understand your site’s performance | ? |
| 21 | Does it check the pages for broken links, orphan and slow pages, lost images, etc? | No | No | Yes, I would recommend to scan your pages with Auditor that will detect broken links, missing images, untitled and slow pages, broken anchors, missing Meta tags, stale content | Link Defender can only find broken links |
| 23 | How can you share the reports with your colleagues or clients? | You can save the reports in .htm, .pdf, .txt and .doc format | You can export the reports but only in 2 formats: .html and .csv | You can use Report Viewer (special utility that help to provide your clients or collegues with the reports, produced by the software), export reports in .html, .csv, .mht or .xls format) or send the reports via e-mail | You can send only some reports via e-mail or upload them to your server |
| 25 | What are the benefits of having this very SEO software? | IBP has nice set of tools for keyword research, it is interesting to play with ROI calculator and you can find tools helping through all your road to SEOed site. | Keeping in mind that SEO Elite provides you with tools just for some SEO tasks, pay attention to some really helpful ones. Of course you can do it manually, but some automation will help to save your time verifying whether your link partners are still linking back. Also submitting articles to article directories can become great tool if Brad and his team will work quick on fixing it. | You start with keyword research and end with upoloading your pretty SEOed pages; then you monitor your site’s uptime, track and analyze your visitors; think about changes and implement them. And it is all in one search engine optimization software. | Probably WebPosition was great when it was the first in search engine optimization software market, but now they need something new and better. |
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